Truth-seeking flowchart

  • Distrust in all claims (skepticism)
  • Getting close to zero. Returning to a point clear of claims and beliefs
  • Thinking, observation, impartiality
  • Pillars
    • Comparing the intelligent human's design with nature's design
    • Death and life
    • Individuality
  • My truth and personal belief = world is designed
    • Designer/designers are separate from the design (induction, intuition)
    • Huge knowledge of the designer/designers (omniscience)
    • Enormous power of the designer/designers (omnipotence)
    • Oneness of the Designer (Universe's natural laws' constancy)
    • Origin of good and evil (oneness of the Designer + existence of good and evil)
    • The end of rationalistic perception
  • Our lack of control/dominance over life and death
    • Life and death are both designed
    • Life and death are only the control of the Designer
  • The contradiction of the individuality and materialistic world
    • Individuality is designed
    • Individuality is a sign of metaphysics (maybe soul)
  • Suspension and possible routes
    • Abandoning the research at this point
    • Knowing more about the Designer, but without logic and rational
      • Example: he has big muscles because he's powerful
    • Claiming a connection with the Designer (a lie, self-deception)
    • Searchin amongst people to find signs of this Designer
      • Abductive reasoning
      • Personal truth, personal belief, personal choice
  • Search topic
    • World is designed
    • Designer is:
      • Omniscient
      • Omnipotent
      • One
      • Origin of the Good and Evil
      • Separate from the design
    • Life and death are his design and in his hands
    • Individuality is apparent in his design
  • Place of search: All of the claims and beliefs
  • Result of the search:
    • Human cults and claims
      • No sign of such a designer
      • Or no central role for this Designer
    • Religions and gods (beyond humans)
      • Deism (but my intuition is that the Designer does not abandon the design)
      • Pantheism (but the design is separate from the design)
      • Polytheistic religions (but the Designer is the One)
        • Monolatry
        • Henotheism
      • Monotheistic religions
        • Comparing gods
        • Allah is the best match
  • Allah, Muhammad, and Quran in Islam
    • Assessing distortion possibility in the Quran
      • Old codexes
      • Corpus Coranicum (Germany)
      • Diacritics' role in Arabic grammar
    • Assessing Quran's authorship by Muhammad
      • High compatibility with today's scientific knowledge
  • Result:
    • I see, and I know, and I am a witness that there is no god but Allah. He is, and there is no one but Him. If it exists, it is by His will, and if He wills, it will not exist (what exists is by His will, and if He wills non-existence, what exists will become non-existence). The world is his creation. Muhammad is his messenger, and the Qur'an is his word.
  • Extraction
    • Reading the Quran to find out the right way of living and correct rituals up until death